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Article: Busloads come to Providence for New England's `XXX' haven.(The Providence Journal)
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
- Article date:
- May 2, 2002
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. _ Two miles south of downtown, away from Waterplace Park, Providence Place mall and the upscale restaurants, lies another world that has become a destination for tourists.
Chartered buses pull up to the curb outside the gaudy pink building on Allens Avenue with the flashing police light on the roof. Hundreds of cars pack the lots and side streets. Next door, dozens of pedestrians, almost all men, venture into a windowless brick warehouse.
The visitors, many from Massachusetts and Connecticut, are in pursuit of a common goal: sex.
Welcome to the underbelly of the Providence Renaissance.
In recent years, the sex industry ...